Huh? No, the Heritage Foundation in 1989 proposed the individual mandate as an alternative to single-payer health care - explicitly as a way to avoid it not as

Huh? No, the Heritage Foundation in 1989 proposed the individual mandate as an alternative to single-payer health care - explicitly as a way to avoid it not as a path toward it. That's why it's in there. It's based on models by the Hudson Institute and the Heritage Foundation, free-market think tanks and is partially based on the Republican Massachusetts plan from 2006. The inability of republicans to replace the plan over the past decade is because the plan as it stands was more or less the Free Market proposed alternative to a European style system by their leading advocacy groups circa 2009. The Republicans are disowning the plan now because of optics. The Heritage foundation pulled their original document for instance, but you can find it in places like here https://www.scribd.com/doc/86911670/1989-Assuring-Affordable-Health-Care-for-All-Americans https://www.scribd.com/doc/86911670/1989-Assuring-Affordable...